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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Generative models for name disambiguation
Name ambiguity is a special case of identity uncertainty where one person can be referenced by multiple name variations in different situations or even share the same name with ot...
Yang Song, Jian Huang 0002, Isaac G. Councill, Jia...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Privacy-enhancing personalized web search
Personalized web search is a promising way to improve search quality by customizing search results for people with individual information goals. However, users are uncomfortable w...
Yabo Xu, Ke Wang, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Web-scale named entity recognition
Automatic recognition of named entities such as people, places, organizations, books, and movies across the entire web presents a number of challenges, both of scale and scope. Da...
Casey Whitelaw, Alexander Kehlenbeck, Nemanja Petr...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais